GOVERNMENT > U.S.S.R. (Soviet Union) [1922-1991
- the government was in control of all farming
- Plans to industrialize
- Government had complete control over the economy
- Anyone who apposed Stalin would be sent to prison camps in Siberia
- capital moved to Mosow
- the great patrolic war occured
- forced czar nicholas II to give up the thrown
- Vladimir Lenin start the Russian Revolution in 1917 and made it a communist state
- The communist moved the capital from St. Petersburg to Moscow due to invasion problems
- There was much suffering during the Soviet Era
- Stalin became the Soviet leader and most of the suffering came from the time when he was ruling
- The cold war was between the US and the Soviets
- During the cold war the Soviet economy was struggling
- In 1985 Gorbachev became the Soviet leader but then the republics that made up the Union declared there independence and the Soviet Union was no more
- It was a communist state
- formed in 1922
- Russia's Communist leaders were securely in power
- Lenin ruled and died in 1924
- after death, Stalin took over and took control of all farming
- Nazi Germany invaded
- during the conflicts Soviet joined with Great Britain and USA to defeat the Germans